All 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley Soldiers are required to roll their uniform sleeves, according to information released today by Maj. Gen. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr. and Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph C. Cornelison, “Big Red One” command team.

Junction City High School will be one-to-one in the 2016-17 school year.

Every student will have access to a laptop device to help integrate digital and traditional learning. USD 475 said the electrical system is being upgraded to support the initiative.

A Geek Squad style room is being created within the media center to help serve students who need assistance. It will be called the “Beak” Room ( Blue Jay beak ).

Also at JCHS, work is being done on the cafeteria floor and seating to accomodate those who want to work in a cafe style area where they can charge their laptops and eat in a nook with stools. The welding area is getting a new exhaust system and the auto shop is getting new paint and an alignment lift.

Mamie Eisenhower: The Hostess in Chief will be the title of a program July 14 at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home. The brown bag noon hour program wll beheld in the Visitors Center auditorium.

Mamie was America’s First Lady from 1953 to 1961. She was also an Army wife, mother and grandmother.

The brown bag noon hour program will be held in the Visitors Center auditorium.

Ellie ( Carlson ) of Ellie Presents, Chicago, Ill. will portray Mamie. She is a museum curator with 30 years of experience in small to mid-sized museums and a first-person interpreter portraying several women from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Garrison Commander Colonel Andrew Cole Jr. will be bid farewell and and Colonel John Lawrence will be welcomed at a change of command ceremony at Ware Parade Field on Fort Riley at 9 am on July 13th.

Lawrence is taking command after coming from an assignment as the garrison commander at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

Cole became commander in July 2013 and will be leaving Fort Riley to become the Chief of Staff of the Manuever Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Storms that pushed through the area early this morning caused power outages in Junction City.

The high winds from the storms caused tree damage and affected power lines in the city.

Westar Energy confirmed that there are still approximately 32 residental/business 0utages in the area.

Per Westar Energy, power should be restored to all affected customers today by 3:30 pm.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran has announced that he will be in Manhattan as part of his Kansas listening tour on Friday, July 15.

Area residents can attend and share feedback  with the Sensator on critical issues facing Kansas and the nation.

Moran will be at the Manhattan Public Library, second floor, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on July 15.

Live Well Geary County has been coordinating the serving of meals to hungry children in the community this summer.

Deb Andres provided numbers from the Summer Picnics Tuesday for the Junction City Commission. She reported that more than 2, 450 meals had been served through July 5. “We opened up a new site carrying on what the school district had done at Washington Elementary. When their summer school was finished they served hot meals for one more week, which was last week. And then we picked that site up through Live Well Geary County and our volunteers.”

Live Well Geary County will also pick up the 12th Street Community Center as a site at the end of this month.

Andres reported that their had been a great volunteer base from the community helping with this project.